SIDNEY S. ALDERMAN
(Associate Trial Counsel for the United States):
May it please the Tribunal, it occurs to me that
perhaps the Tribunal might be interested in a
very brief outline of what might be expected to
occur within the next week or two weeks in this
Trial.

I shall immediately proceed
with the aggressive war case, to present the
story of the rape of Czechoslovakia. I shall not
perhaps be able to conclude that today.

Sir
Hartley Shawcross, the British chief prosecutor,
has asked that he be allowed to proceed tomorrow
morning with his opening statement on Count Two
and I shall be glad to yield for that purpose,
with the understanding that we shall resume on
Czechoslovakia after that.

Thereafter,
the British prosecutor will proceed to present
the aggressive warfare case as to Poland, which
brought France and England into the war.
Thereupon the British prosecutor will proceed,
with the expansion of aggressive war in Europe,
the aggression against Norway and Denmark,
against Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg,
against Yugoslavia and Greece. And in connection
with those aggressions the British prosecutor
will present to the Tribunal the various
treaties involved and the various breaches of
treaties involved in those aggressions.

That,
as I understand it, will complete the British
case under Count Two and will probably take the
rest of this week.

Then it will be
necessary for the American prosecuting staff to
come back to Count One to cover certain portions
which have not been covered, specifically,
persecution of the Jews, concentration camps,
spoliation in occupied territories, the High
Command, and other alleged criminal
organizations, particularly evidence dealing
with individual responsibility of individual
defendants.

Roughly, I would
anticipate that that would carry through the
following weektwo weeks. estimate.
However, that is a very rough estimate.

Thereupon,
the French chief prosecutor will make his
opening statement and will present the evidence
as to Crimes against